Episode 46: Close Your Ears & Dream On!

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Close Your Ears & Dream On!

“Close your ears to all
adverse suggestions. Never mind if people call you a fool and a
dreamer. Dream on.” ~ Wallace
D. Wattles fromThe
Science of Being Great

Did you know the guy who invented the radio (Marconi) was thrown
into an insane asylum when he told his “friends” that he could
harness sound and transmit it from one place to another without
anything in between. They thought he was nuts.

(tangent: It IS kind of nutty when you think about it! You can
listen to a radio station while driving your car or talk to your
friends on a little piece of plastic with NOTHING (visible, anyway)
there.)

Now, imagine if the people we admire so much decided they’d only
do what the people around them thought was
reasonable/possible/appropriate. Our world would be kinda boring. We
owe all the great advances of our civilization to people who were
brave enough to close their ears to all adverse suggestions, eh?!?

As Harry Truman says: “How far would Moses have gone if he
had taken a poll in Egypt? What would Jesus Christ have preached if
he had taken a poll in the land of Israel? What would have happened
to the Reformation if Martin Luther had taken a poll? It isn’t
polls or public opinion of the moment that counts. It’s right and
wrong and leadership.”

George Bernard Shaw says it beautifully as well: “Reasonable
people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to
adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on
unreasonable people.”